This role leads all plant finance and accounting activities, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and timely decision support to Operations. This role also owns the month-end close and forecasting process, drives cost/working-capital performance, and partners with plant leadership to improve profitability, operational efficiency, and compliance with corporate policies and accounting standards.
Responsibilities
- Leading month-end/year-end close, financial reporting, and internal controls
- Owning standard costing, inventory accounting, and variance analysis
- Partnering with Operations on labour, scrap, efficiency, materials, freight, and overhead performance
- Leading budgeting, forecasting, annual planning, and longer-range financial modelling
- Driving working capital, cash planning, and capital investment analysis
- Developing and leading a plant finance team
- Supporting compliance, audit readiness, and continuous process improvement
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- CPA (or equivalent) designation
- 7-10+ years of experience in manufacturing finance/accounting
- Proven ownership of close, costing, and plant performance reporting
- Strong understanding of standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, and internal controls
- Advanced Excel
- ERP/MRP experience required
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team, influence cross-functional leaders, and drive process improvement in a fast-paced plant environment.
- Strong communication skills
